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Plot Summary:
After the government shuts down his project on time travel, a brilliant quantum physicist must find a way to continue his research in order to travel back in time and prevent his fiance from being killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Prisoner X (2016)
Plot Summary:
A CIA operative interrogates a time-traveling terrorist.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: novela
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Displacement (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young physics student must find a way to reverse a deadly quantum time anomaly and solve the murder of her boyfriend while battling short-term memory loss and time slips caused by the event.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Third Contact (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dr David Wright's emotional torment now prevents him from functioning as a therapist. The woman he has loved has vanished from his life 'forever'. Rene Maurer, one of his regular patients, has died - an apparent suicide. Rene's sister, Erika, traveling to London to sort out his things, discovers something curious - his apartment is almost empty. A cup, a spoon, a fork, a knife, frames without pictures, torn photos... One more curiosity - a list of memories. Four dated descriptions of moments in Rene's life. Another patient dies. Another list of memories. There's something strange going on. Something sinister behind these 'suicides'.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The History of Time Travel (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fictional documentary about the creation of the world's first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, mockumentary, psychotronic
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Yesterday's Target (1996)
Plot Summary:
Memory loss, separation and assassins threaten three time-travelers with special powers who are stuck in the past.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Feedback (2002)
Plot Summary:
Feedback is a techno-thriller that takes place a few years from now. Set in a bleak and desolate world, this is the story of three friends caught up in a streak of bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Kanam (2022)
Plot Summary:
A struggling young musician, along with his two friends, with the help of a quantum physicist goes back in time to prevent the death of his mother. What happens next?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags:
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The Ugly Little Boy (1977)
Plot Summary:
Edyth Fellows is a nurse recruited for an research project with a time travel device that can snatch any being from any time and bring it to the present. The first such test brings an Neanderthal child to the project and Fellows is responsible for his care for the interim. As she manages this task, Fellows is increasingly revolted at how the scientists dismiss him as little more than an animal, especially when his real intelligence shows. This growing moral dilemma comes to a head when Fellows realizes what they plan to do with him and she cannot stand by and let it happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: futuristic
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Mark Antony (2023)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1995, Mark, a skilled mechanic and the son of a former gangster, stumbles upon a phone that has the ability to connect with the past, tries to save his estranged mother from a grim fate. While facing his own family's legacy, Mark must navigate through dangerous consequences of altering the past, as it causes unforeseen repercussions in the present.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Final (2001)
Plot Summary:
Waking up in a nearly empty room, Bill has strange recollections of his father's death and a car crash, and occasional paranoid delusions. Ann, a psychologist, tries to help him make sense of it all.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, atmospheric, serious, witty, contemplative, independent film
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Cyborg 2087 (1966)
Plot Summary:
In the future world of the year 2087, freedom of thought is illegal and the thoughts of the world's populations are controlled by the government. A small band of "free thinkers" send a cyborg back in time to the year 1966 to prevent a scientist from making the breakthrough that will eventually lead to the mass thought control of the future. Our time traveler soon discovers he is not alone when government agents from the future try to prevent him from carrying out his mission.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Turn Back the Clock (1989)
Plot Summary:
After a woman fervently wishes for another chance after a terrible tragedy, she is mysteriously granted one year of her life to be lived over.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Shifter (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman struggles with the painful and gruesome side effects of an experiment with time travel gone wrong that causes her to lose control and shift through time at random.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, intense, psychotronic, splatter, queer horror, weird
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Paradox (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists are experimenting with time travel, and they manage to send one of their group ahead in time one hour. But when he comes back, he tells them that they’ll all be dead within the next hour unless they shut the machine down.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending, grindhouse, surprise ending
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The Yesterday Machine (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, bizarre
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Not the End (2018)
Plot Summary:
Javier comes from the future to recover the lost love of María. Together they relive the magic of the first day they met and repeat the trip that took them from a sunrise in Madrid to a sunset on the Andalusian coast. Everything, to get Maria to be the full of life girl she once fell in love with.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Aporia (2023)
Plot Summary:
Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Diverge (2016)
Plot Summary:
The survivor of a deadly virus is given the chance to reclaim his lost life by stopping the man responsible for the disease.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Einstein's God Model (2016)
Plot Summary:
For thousands of years, evidence of life after death has eluded mankind. Science is about to change that. With the help of a physicist, a blind medium, and Thomas Edison’s final experiment, Brayden Taylor embarks on a quest to contact his deceased fiancee. For his love to transcend dimensions, he must defy the laws of quantum physics. He must defy the balance nature demands. He must defy ... Einstein’s God Model.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, suspense
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Running Against Time (1990)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he can't return to his present time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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S. Darko (2009)
Plot Summary:
S. Darko follows Samantha Darko, the younger sister of Donnie, the protagonist of Donnie Darko, and her friend Corey. On their way to California, their car breaks down, forcing them to wait in a small town until it is fixed. While there, Samantha begins to have dreams that warn her of the end of the universe.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, serious, stylized, psychological thriller, retro, suspense, dark, slasher, mindfuck
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Millennium (1989)
Plot Summary:
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, tech noir, grindhouse, psychological, ambiguous ending
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Time Changer (2002)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1890 and Bible professor Russell Carlisle has written a new manuscript entitled "The Changing Times". His colleague, Dr. Norris Anderson, believes that what Carlisle has written could greatly affect the future of coming generations and, using his secret time machine, Anderson sends Carlisle over 100 years into the future, offering him a glimpse of where his beliefs will lead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, psychological, contemplative, biting, suspense
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Meet Cute (2022)
Plot Summary:
A wildly inventive deconstruction of the romantic comedy built around the question: What would you do if you could travel to your loved ones’ past, heal their traumas, fix their problems, and change them into the perfect partner?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cute
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The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend, Julie and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his memories. However, his time-traveling attempts to alter the past and save his one true love have unexpected and dire consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, mindfuck, thought provoking, absurd, psychological thriller, psychedelic
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Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, intense, tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Project Almanac (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, absurd, clever, tricky, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, cerebral
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Time After Time (1979)
Plot Summary:
The Wildest Chase Of The Century! London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname... and also to a visionary genius who would write The Time Machine. But what if H.G. Wells' invention wasn't fiction? And what if Jack the Ripper escaped capture fleeing his own time to take refuge in ours - with Wells himself in pursuit?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, clever, psychotronic, psychological, retro, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, mysterious, surreal
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Primer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, surreal, independent film, mind bending, confusing, thought provoking, enigmatic, clever, mindfuck
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The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 514000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, philosophical, suspense, non-linear, dramatic, reflective, intellectual, intense, surprise ending